Candide: or, All for the Best
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Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1072328925 ISBN13: 9781072328926 Release Date: June 2019 Publisher: Independently Published Length: 112 Pages Weight: 0.45 lbs. Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0" Complete and unabridged paperback edition.Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best, Candide: or, The Optimist and Candide: Optimism. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must c

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